Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail : : Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool / / Jacqueline Nassy Brown.

The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how th...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE Setting Sail
  • CHAPTER TWO. Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space
  • CHAPTER THREE. 1981
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Genealogies: Place, Race, and Kinship
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Diaspora and Its Discontents: A Trilogy
  • CHAPTER SIX. My City, My Self: A Folk Phenomenology
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. A Slave to History: Local Whiteness in a Black Atlantic Port
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ghost of Muriel Fletcher
  • CHAPTER NINE. Local Women and Global Men: The Liverpool That Was
  • POSTSCRIPT: The Leaving of Liverpool
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX